ACT III. SCENE IX

Already in Le Dépit Amoureux, Act IV., Scenes II.-IV., Molière had treated at length the same situation as in this scene and the one following. Cf. also Tartuffe, Act II., Scene IV.

Page 62. — i. elle fait tous mes soins, etc., she is the object 0/ ail my car es, etc., is the cause of.

Page 53. — i- Après tant d’assidus hommages, etc. Notice the comic effect of alternating the idéal and the real in the respective speeches of master and valet. The adjective is before the noun as in “traîtresses paroles,” page 51, note i.